“Your account with the Treasure Book Club, of $4.98 plus interest and charges, has been turned over to our agency for collection. The amount due is now $6.83. Please send your check for this amount or we shall be forced to take immediate action.”
– from a letter to Walter Child on this date in Gordon R. Dickson‘s 1966.
Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is imprisoned at the conclusion of an escalating series of misunderstandings for which s/he is not at fault.
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